...an you row the boat ashore, Without paddle or an oar, Billy boy?
Full of confidence, the inventor thought to appeal to the governor, and his letter is still preserved in the State archives:
Augusta , Georgia, September 26, 1790. Sir,--
I make no doubt but you have often heard of my steamboat, and as often heard it laughed at, but in this I have only shared the fate of other projectors, for i...